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491 Days: Prisoner Number...

491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69

On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home...

$25.95

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A Small Place

"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land...

$14.00

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All God's Children Need T...

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community...

$15.95

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Always Another Country: A...

Always Another Country: A Memoire of Exile and Home

Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents,...

$16.99

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Among Flowers: A Walk in ...

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular Himalayan land, where she and...

$17.00

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Bird of Paradise: How I B...

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Digging through memories long buried, Cepeda journeyed not only into her ancestry but also into her own history. Born in Harlem to...

$17.00

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Black Boy [Seventy-Fifth ...

Black Boy [Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition]

When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York...

$17.99

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Black. Queer. Southern. W...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in...

$42.50

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Born a Crime: Stories fro...

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth....

$28.00

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Brother, I'm Dying

When she was four, Edwidge Danticat’s mother left Haiti to join her father who had gone to New York two years earlier,...

$16.00

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Conversations with Myself

From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long...

$20.00

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Coretta Scott

Celebrated poet and playwright Ntozake Shange captures the spirit of Civil Rights pioneer Coretta Scott King in this picture book biography gorgeously...

$8.99

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Create Dangerously: The I...

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted...

$15.95

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Dare Not Linger: The Pres...

Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared...

$20.00

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From Harvey River: A Memo...

From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those...

$13.99

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Gone Home: Race and Roots...

Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia

Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness,...

$24.95

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Heavy: An American Memoir

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies,...

$16.00

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If I Can Cook/You Know Go...

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes ( Celebr...

A delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. This...

$15.00

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It's Trevor Noah: Born a ...

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

We do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. . . . We don’t see them...

$8.99

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Just as I Am: A Memoir

"Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these...

$28.99

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Just Mercy: A Story of Ju...

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

When Bryan Stevenson graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988, he headed south to Alabama, a state on the verge of a...

$17.00

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Kaffir Boy: The True Stor...

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

I am always asked to explain what it felt like to grow up black under South Africa's system of legalized racism known...

$18.00

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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers)

Life in Motion: An Unlike...

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers)

$18.99

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Love Child

Gcina Mhlophe is a poet, playwright, performer and South Africa's favorite storyteller. In this fascinating retrospective collection, she shares her personal journey...

$17.95

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Men We Reaped: A Memoir

In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow...

$17.00

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My Brother

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often...

$15.00

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My Grandmother's Hands: R...

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered...

$17.95

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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir

In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of...

$17.00

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Notes on Grief

Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father’s...

$16.00

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Of Water and the Spirit: ...

Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he...

$18.00

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Redemption Ground: Essays...

Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures

n her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied...

$14.95

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Sister Love: The Letters ...

Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen...

$14.95

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Tales from the Heart: Tru...

Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents’...

$16.00

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